NLSC: Unrestricted Natural Language-based Service Composition through Sentence Embeddings

Current approaches for service composition (assemblies of atomic services) require developers to use: (a) domain-specific semantics to formalize services that restrict the vocabulary for their descriptions, and (b) translation mechanisms for service retrieval to convert unstructured user requests to strongly-typed semantic representations. In our work, we argue that effort to developing service descriptions, request translations, and matching mechanisms could be reduced using unrestricted natural language; allowing both: (1) end-users to intuitively express their needs using natural language, and (2) service developers to develop services without relying on syntactic/semantic description languages. Although there are some natural language-based service composition approaches, they restrict service retrieval to syntactic/semantic matching. With recent developments in Machine learning and Natural Language Processing, we motivate the use of Sentence Embeddings by leveraging richer semantic representations of sentences for service description, matching and retrieval. Experimental results show that service composition development effort may be reduced by more than 44\% while keeping a high precision/recall when matching high-level user requests with low-level service method invocations.Comment: This paper will appear on SCC'19 (IEEE International Conference on Services Computing) on July 1

Comparative evaluation of valethamate bromide and hyoscine butyl bromide on cervical dilatation in water buffaloes after detorsion

After detorsion, incomplete cervical dilatation is major cause of dystocia. The present study aimed to investigate the comparative efficacy of valethamate bromide and hyoscine butyl bromide on cervical dilation after detorsion and their effect on haematological and biochemical parameters of torsion detorted water buffaloes. A total of 18 buffaloes were selected for study which were divided into three groups of six animals each. After detorsion by Sharma’s Modified Schaffer’s method, animals with grade I and grade II cervix were selected for the study. Group I (control group) buffaloes were administered with dexamethasone (40 mg, I/M), cloprostenol (500 μg, I/M) and mifex (450 mL, slow I/V) after successful detorsion. Along with these drugs, in group II and group III, valethamate bromide (100 mg, I/M) and hyoscine butyl bromide (160 mg, I/M) were administered, respectively. The cervical dilation rate (CDR) of each group was calculated and compared. Blood samples were collected three times: before detorsion, after treatment and at parturition. Group III (2.17±0.07 cm/h) had significantly higher CDR followed by group II (1.39±0.21 cm/h), and control group (0.47±0.19 cm/h). Serum calcium levels were also elevated after treatment. Both drug combinations were found safe haematologically and biochemically

Uncertainty, ambiguity, and financial decision-making

This Colloquium delves into the methods and theories developed in financial economics to deal with the uncertainty in financial decision-making. Considering both practitioners’ and academicians’ perspectives, it sees if they have really altered markets and transformed the environment.26 page(s

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Not AvailableIn this changing climate scenario, rapid increase of human population resulted in increased demand of food production. During the last century crop plants have been improved through classical breeding techniques and numerous varieties of several crops have been developed across the world. However conventional breeding in improving crop plants is constrained due to genetic erosion, genetic drag, reproductive obstacles and usually take longer time. Thus, there is an urgent need for the novel breeding and biotechnology-assisted crop improvement, which ultimately aimed to obtain novel plant traits. Many novel techniques such as marker assisted selection, marker assisted back cross breeding, marker assisted gene pyramiding plays crucial role in improvement of crop plants. Advancement in plant genetic engineering (genetic transformation and genome editing) have made it possible to transfer gene into crop plants from unrelated plants and even from non-plant organism. These biotechnological approaches are a great option to improve crop plants with significant commercial properties such as increased biotic stress resistant or abiotic stress tolerances; nutrition; yield and quality.Not Availabl